Identity is why Dennis Erickson decided to become Utah's offensive coordinator. He has one and Utah's offense didn't last fall. Erickson, one of the seminal minds behind the spread passing attack, is a football coach at heart. At 65, he's not read...

California has hired Louisiana Tech coach Sonny Dykes, an offensive specialist, to replace Jeff Tedford as the Bears head football coach. Why is the 43-year-old with a 22-15 record coaching in Ruston, La., a good hire in Berkeley? For one, offe...

Jon Embree didn't win many games as Colorado's football coach, but he won the news conference Monday that formalized his termination. Fired after just two years leading the Buffaloes, Embree, fighting off tears throughout and picking his words car...

Not unlike his pop -- "Playoffs? Playoffs?!" -- Jim Mora can be kind of a grump. Not in a "I hate the world" sort of way. More in a football coach-y way. Which is why I got a kick out of Jon Gold's description of Mora from spring practice No. 1 fo...

A fresh start for a college football coach can turn sour quickly, particularly when a couple of starters decide not only to get into a fight at a party but opt to return for a second go-around, thereby making it an iron-clad certainty they'd get arre...

The ink was barely dry on Rob Mullens' new contract to become Oregon's athletic director when he faced what perhaps will be considered the most important task of his tenure, even a decade down the road: Make football coach Chip Kelly happy. It was...

Jim L. Mora, a two-time NFL head coach with almost no college experience, is UCLA's new football coach, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com. And UCLA made the official announcement a short time later. Mora, 50, is currently an analyst for the NFL N...

Has UCLA's meandering search for a new coach changed its focus to Washington's Steve Sarkisian? The LA Times reports that the Bruins are interested: Washington football Coach Steve Sarkisian, a former assistant coach at USC, has been approached b...

New Arizona coach Rick Rodriguez is starting put his staff together. Here is the official release on his latest hire: Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez today name Rod Smith co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and officially appoi...

Here's the official release from Washington State confirming Mike Leach's hiring. Washington State University announced Wednesday that Mike Leach has been named the Cougars' head football coach. Leach, who agreed in principle to a five-year contract...

Tech-savvy Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne made it official not at a news conference but with a Tweet with a photo link: Former Michigan and West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez is the next Wildcats football coach. There will be a 2 p.m. ET new...

Colorado has provided an official release on the suspension of five players, which was first reported by the Boulder Daily Camera. Here's the release: University of Colorado head football coach Jon Embree announced Thursday the indefinite suspens...

PHOENIX -- Set aside for a moment that the new Pac-12 television deal will quadruple revenue for each conference team. That's important, but football was hardly skimping on expenditures before. What might be even more important for football coach...

If David Shaw is as good a head football coach as he is handling a news conference, then Stanford is in excellent hands. Let's start with this: "Two years of good football is not enough," said Shaw, a former Stanford player. Shaw, 38, isn't pla...

Oregon coach Chip Kelly runs a fancy-pants offense and his football philosophy is based on speed, speed, speed, but there is no way you're going to get a football coach to say he runs a "finesse team." Finesse is not a term football coaches embrac...